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>Amazon’s ecommerce business has summoned a large group of engineers to a meeting on Tuesday for a “deep dive” into a spate of outages, including incidents tied to the use of AI coding tools. The online retail giant said there had been a “trend of incidents” in recent months, characterized by a “high blast radius” and “Gen-AI assisted changes” among other factors, according to a briefing note for the meeting seen by the FT. Under “contributing factors” the note included “novel GenAI usage for which best practices and safeguards are not yet fully established.” “Folks, as you likely know, the availability of the site and related infrastructure has not been good recently,” Dave Treadwell, a senior vice-president at the group, told employees in an email, also seen by the FT.

Archive: https://archive.today/pt99l From the post: >>Amazon’s ecommerce business has summoned a large group of engineers to a meeting on Tuesday for a “deep dive” into a spate of outages, including incidents tied to the use of AI coding tools. The online retail giant said there had been a “trend of incidents” in recent months, characterized by a “high blast radius” and “Gen-AI assisted changes” among other factors, according to a briefing note for the meeting seen by the FT. Under “contributing factors” the note included “novel GenAI usage for which best practices and safeguards are not yet fully established.” “Folks, as you likely know, the availability of the site and related infrastructure has not been good recently,” Dave Treadwell, a senior vice-president at the group, told employees in an email, also seen by the FT.
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I posted earlier this week. IBM is doubling down on hiring Junior engineers right now. "AI" is still not ready to "take the wheel" and the companies that are firing good people are feeling the pain.

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LLMs will never be ready to take the wheel. They are coding tools, nothing more. They can be useful, but only if you treat every line of code they write as untrustworthy and manually review it.

IBM is ahead of the game in realizing that. I think the other companies are still hanging on to the hope that they can fire a large portion of those damned developers because “AI” will do most of the work.

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Yes, They are not "AI". They are not "Thinking".

Many people simply do not understand that. It is very telling on how intelligent the global human population is.

Honestly, if humanity falls it might not because we nuke ourselves to death. It might be because the "useful idiots" think the "bots" are just as smart as a proper engineer.

With enough time, we will reach that point. But for now. Not so much.

The problem with that... It makes useful idiots think they are now as smart or smarter than an engineer. Yeah. Not so much.

[Edit] Oh, right. I also posted about Amazon now requiring senior engineers to sign off of anything a "AI" does (code, infra change, etc). Yep. That was today I think. Case and point.

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People have been assigning human qualities to chat bots since the first even, primitive chat bot. It’s called the Eliza effect (posted by you). I’m not at all surprised that they see LLMs as intelligent. Some people will never be convinced that they’re not.

Those “useful idiots” are the same ones who think pajeets are just as smart as a proper engineer, or at least they want to believe that.

Someone else said that LLMs are just the latest plot to get rid of those damned, annoying, expensive programmers. There has been a number of these things; simplified languages like Basic, pajeets, LLMs. Some of these things are still being pushed. None of them will ever let idiots replace intelligent people.